When I was younger, I went through an Islamic "phase" as a teenager. Okay I was actually somewhat pious. I would only be able to fit in three prayers, but I would always try to make the morning one.
Something I always had trouble with was praying in public, since there wasn't a single Muslim...
Since most prayer books are missing, destroyed or non-exsistant for your branch of the whole non-abrahamic tree. Pagans often write their own prayers. So would anybody be willing to help me?
Love? Now that is complicated, love is wanting to be with a person, its like a crush but so much more. I can't really think of a way to discribe it. Some of my best friends have been tom-boyish girls, they have only ever been friends, no love. I like men more, because I don't know, they can be...
It depresses me, because I just can't imagine another kind of life, its strange, I can see a woman as anything more then a friend, but they are the only thing that really arouse me, I can only really love men, but they don't arouse me (well maybe incidentally).
Maybe I was misinformed, is it not a common belief in Bhakti yoga, that with enough faith, you will eventually achieve Moksha? Maybe it was something else, but I remember Ramakrishna being a bit practicer of it.
So Asatuars have told me, "Ab, we don't worship the gods, we respect them, we don't bow and scrape before them". Well I've been looking around and I managed to find this."Among them are inveita, which seems to be an act of adoration involving some kind of inclination of the body, although it is...
I used to want to be an orthodox jew, I studied hard (too have come so far, yet to fall, right?) but during my studies, I had to be a noachide, before I could ask my rabbi, he moved away. So what practices can a noachide do and what cant they do?
The Roman catholic church opressed most places of seculare learning, they fought most progession every step of the way. Islam would have been a better arguement and only in the period of th Fatimid Calphiate.
also Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire in the later half, about...
We have completely gone off topic here. Senedjem, which do you think would make a better society? A polytheistic religion or a monothiestic one? I am not including monists and various other ones because it could really get confusing.